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*Los Angeles – This week “Washington Watch with Roland Martin” returned to Los Angeles for its second annual West Coast visit in conjunction with the NAACP Image Awards.
The newsmaker guest for the episode airing on TV One Sunday, March 6 at 11 AM is former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell, the recipient of the NAACP’s 2011 President’s Award, discussing his take on events in Washington and the Middle East with host Roland Martin.
A number of black Hollywood’s top actors, directors and comedians also offered their perspectives on significant issues of the day.
Among the celebrities who participated are directors Bill Duke, Mario Van Peebles and talent manager Sonja Norwood; actors Tatyana Ali, Tichina Arnold, Essence Atkins, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Wendy Davis, Elise Neal, Anna Deavere Smith, Tasha Smith, Salli Richardson Whitfield, and Vanessa Williams; comedians J. Anthony Brown, Buddy Lewis, Kym Whitley and Damon Williams; legendary musicians Verdine White and Ralph Johnson from Earth, Wind and Fire; and fashion designer Anthony Mark Hankins.
The “Washington Watch” journalists’ panel included Janice Roshalle Littlejohn, who writes for Emmy Magazine; Miki Turner, who writes for Jet magazine and its website; Allison Samuels of Newsweek; Janell Snowden of VH1; Kevin Frazier, Entertainment Tonight host and founder of hiphollywood.com; and Jawn Murray, AOL Black Voices columnist and entertainment reporter for the Tom Joyner Morning Show.
Hosted by TV One political editor, CNN and Tom Joyner Morning Show analyst Roland Martin, TV One’s hour-long weekly public affairs series focuses on issues of importance to African Americans, through interviews with officials from the Administration, Congress and other policymakers who represent black communities, as well as discussions with journalists and commentators, and a wide range of policy experts
Launched in January 2004, TV One (www.tvoneonline.com) serves more than 52.2 million households, offering a broad range of entertainment, reality and lifestyle-oriented original programming, classic series, movies, and music designed to entertain, inform and inspire a diverse audience of adult African American viewers. TV One’s investors include Radio One [NASDAQ: ROIA and ROIAK; www.radio-one.com], the largest radio company that primarily targets African American and urban listeners; Comcast Corporation [NASDAQ: CMCSA and CMCSK; www.comcast, the leading cable television company in the country; and The DirecTV Group.
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*Apparently Usher’s conscious, as well as media pressure, has moved him to donate the money he earned from a concert appearance linked to the Gadhafi family to various human rights organizations, including Amnesty International.
“I am sincerely troubled to learn about the circumstances surrounding the Nikki Beach St. Barts event that took place on New Year’s Eve 2009,” the singer told The Associated Press. “I will be donating all of my personal proceeds from that event to various human rights organizations.”
The news of Usher’s donation comes on the heels of his peers Beyonce, Mariah Carey and Nelly Furtado opting to give their earnings to charity or stating they have already done so.
Usher is the only artists that didn’t actually perform but he was paid an appearance fee to attend the private concert featuring Beyonce in 2009 for Gadhafi, whose country, Libya, is openly revolting against him and who faces an investigation for possible war crimes.
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*Even in light of his battering of Rihanna, we’ve tried to give Chris Brown the benefit of the doubt. But it seems like he’s just a magnet for stupidity.
Not too long ago it was his Twitter fight with fellow idiot Raz B. Now comes word that a full frontal nude photo of Brown has been “leaked” online.
Apparently, notorious website worldstarhiphop has come into possession of the singer/dancer posing in nothing but his birthday suit in a bathroom.
Online reports say the photo was taken by Brown himself with his iPhone to use for sexting to one of his ex-girlfriends who then put it up on the internet. The flick is obviously a recent one since in it he’s sporting his new blond hair look.
Usually he’s pretty vocal when scandal hits, but he was relatively silent on Twitter after the photos appeared, tweeting and then removing “WTF!!! Here we go!!!” on his verified account.
“Another day!! Another lesson! Another party!!” he tweeted on Saturday afternoon. “I’m so thankful to have the support of my fans with my music! Love.”
Oh yeah, it also might worth noting that Brown just happens to have a new CD called F.A.M.E. about to be released on March 22.
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*The season premiere of “Celebrity Apprentice” aired Sunday night – and so far, so good between teammates NeNe Leakes and Star Jones. But we all know that it’s about to get really ugly in weeks to come – and the Real Housewives of Atlanta star says she wasn’t the only “Apprentice” cast member to be irked by the former prosecutor.
“Star Jones has got it in for me,” The Real Housewives of Atlanta star told reporters during a conference call. “But it’s all good. I’m okay with it. There are a lot of people who don’t like Star, so I won’t be the only one.”
Host Donald Trump acknowledged the tension, saying there was “no love lost” between the women, while costar Meatloaf, who also spoke to reporters to promote the series, added: “I don’t think Star will be any of my friends either.”
So why did the women clash? “She is very different. She’s a piece of work,” Leakes says of Jones. “Anyone who sits around all day and says all her friends are doctors and lawyers and A-list celebrities – cut the BS, I don’t have time for it.”
So what does Jones have to say about Leakes?
“I did Celebrity Apprentice to raise money and awareness for the American Heart Association, which has been instrumental in my life, not to see it reduced to a cliché where black women attack one another for publicity’s sake,” Jones says. “I haven’t made any comments in hopes that she would remember that we all participated in this show for charity and not as a vehicle to promote ourselves and such hatred. I was clearly wrong and I decided to finally respond.”
NeNe was on “The Talk” last week and revealed even more details about her beef with Star.
Watch below.
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*A week after Willow Smith’s new single “21st Century Girl” made its radio debut, its music video has made its online debut.
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The setting starts off in a barren desert, then transforms into a modern metropolis of skateboards and skyscrapers.
The clip opens with an elderly woman telling Willow a secret that enables her to create a butterfly out of sand. When she finishes dancing, Willow passes on the secret to a toddler, who ends the video creating another butterfly from sand.
Watch below.
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